Hello, I’m having trouble installing Synfig on my Macbook Pro. I download the .dmg file, press open, once it finishes verifying the file, the Synfig icon just bounces on the dock until I force quit. I installed XQuartz but it didn’t help.

Hi and welcome here :slight_smile: Please check it is not coming from GateKeeper, XQuartz is not needed anymore wiki.synfig.org/Doc:Troubleshoot … fig_on_OSX synfig.org/cms/en/news/nativ … e-testing/ [image] Synfig not working on macbook pro Synfig related help I’ve bee…

Thank you for the help but it still won’t run. I don’t have a verification issue. When I press open and it gets verified, it just bounces on the dock. Nothing opens. I tried the new development build and the same thing happens. Any other solution maybe? Do I have to install macports?

Depending the version you can try the MacPorts (for 1.0.2, which outdated and not recommended) Another “safe” option is to use a VirtualBox with a Linux distro inside, you can even use seamless mode to have Synfig “floating” in your Mac environment. As this Mac OS X is relatively new, you could tr…

It opened! All I did was restart the computer and it started working for some reason. Didn’t even change anything. Thank you for the help!

Another proof Mac OS X and Windows are converging [:mrgreen:] Have fun with Synfig!

I know this is an old thread, but I am having the same problem. I’m using a MacBook Pro with 10.11.6. Same problem as Kablam described. Have this problem with both Synfig Studio 1.4.2 and 1.4.3. Does not appear to be a verification issue. The Mac OS X install is a clean install so there shouldn…

Hi and welcome here :slight_smile: Did you have any error message from the console? (see Troubleshooting_Synfig_on_OSX ) Are the 2 installs with the same bitness and archi? (32/64…) In a VM, the hardware is emulated, in general enough generic/compatible, maybe some missing drivers on the physical…

Hi, The two installs are both 64-bit. Both Intel. The real machine has 4 GB of RAM while the VM only has 2 GB. In Terminal, if I use “/tmp/skl/SynfigStudio/Contents/Resources/synfig/bin/synfigstudio” I get “No such file or directory.” The problem report after SynfigStudio crashes says: Excepti…

[image] dcr: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL) Please check this thread maybe you will find the solution, therewas the same error: [image] Since the version 1.3.11 does not open on mac 10.11 Support I use a mac Intel Core 2 Duo from 2007, with version 10.11.6 of mac OS X…

I’m guessing 1.4.x is not going to run on this machine. It’s a 2007 MacBook Pro, which is possibly the same model used by the OP in the thread you linked. I haven’t tried downloading 1.2.2 to see if it works, but I suspect it would.

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Please check this thread maybe you will find the solution, therewas the same error: